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...outcry--and little action--over college sports' problems have rendered the public insensitive to new reports of abuse. Who, except for a couple of sanctimonious sportswriters, cares anymore whether State University gets docked two or three years of television appearances for buying a car for Johnny Superstar? What casual reader, for that matter, raised his eyebrow more than slightly upon hearing of the abuses in the USF basketball program...
...indeed? White was a so-so student at St. John the Baptist High School, indifferent to sports and too shy to be very popular, but he still qualified as an old-fashioned all-American youngster. He was a devoted reader, especially of military histories, and a Boy Scout. He was a devout Roman Catholic and a volunteer counselor at a camp for handicapped children. He was apparently never in the slightest trouble, not in St. Louis, not during his studious postgraduate year at a Missouri military academy, and not during his ten months in the Army...
...story goes. A civilian reader in the West is not much comforted by the precarious victory, nor is he meant to be. In part, the world owes its bloody deliverance to simple luck. (Certainly one ironic bit of luck, although it came too late for inclusion in this book, would be that the Falkland Islands war gave he British an opportunity to sort out their modern weapons and bucked up their national courage.) Had the Soviets delayed their attack for a year or two, as KGB intelligence reports recommended, the activities of European disarmers, and the foreign policy blunders...
...line of work." The goal is bold, perhaps Utopian and typical of this tireless polymath. Adler, 79, is an encyclopedist and organizer of knowledge whose Great Books (with Hutchins) and Great Ideas volumes set out simply, and comprehensively, to make the intellectual monuments of Western civilization available to any reader...
...Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson